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Lucky 13 Contest Sponsor: Competitive Cameras

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:59:52 +0000

Contest Sponsor Spotlight

Thanks to Competitive Cameras for being one of the generous sponsors for Red River’s Lucky 13 Birthday celebration!

The Prize:

Canon SD940IS
12.1 megapixels-720p high-definition movie shooting capability plus HDMI(TM) output connector- 28mm wide-angle lens with 4x optical zoom & optical image stabilization-

www.competitivecameras.com

Want to enter the contest? Click here

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RRP Daily Dose September 7, 2010

whit — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:28:47 +0000

ENTER TODAY!

Eye on Image-Making: Photographers and the Law (BSR)

The Happy Meal Project (Imaging Insider)

Shomei Tomatsu: the man who changed Japanese photography for ever (Guardian)

Through my lens: The life of NBA photographer (NBA)

An Interview with Canon manager Tsunemasa Ohara on developing the 1D Mark IV (EOS HD)

Nikon Europe preparing their website to accomodate the new Nikon D7000 (NR)

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Lucky 13 Contest Sponsor: Joby

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:48:23 +0000

Contest Sponsor Spotlight

Thanks to Joby for being one of the generous sponsors for Red River’s Lucky 13 Birthday celebration!

The Prize:

Gorillapod Magnetic
Super-powerful magnetic feet make the Gorillapod even more versatile! Designed for compact digital cameras and mini video recorders.

www.joby.com

Want to enter the contest? Click here

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RRP Daily Dose September 4, 2010

whit — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:38:32 +0000

ENTER TODAY!

Photographing the Funnier Side of Agriculture Culture (NPR)

Create a Moonlite Night Scene in Photoshop (Good-Tutorials)

Cheap Photo Software that Might Surprise You (The Digital Story)

Dorothea Lange, The Musical (NPPA)

Shooting those Clean Flower Backgrounds (Tamron)

Understanding Sharpening with Adobe Lightroom (Todd Owyoung)

The Happy Meal Photo Project (Imaging Insider)

Dreamy Diana Lens for Your DSLR (Photoshop Girl)

10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Pro Photog (Pix Feed LA)

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Red River’s Lucky 13 Birthday Contest!!

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:00:29 +0000

Red River’s Lucky 13 Birthday Contest!!

Red River Paper’s 13th anniversary is September of this year and to celebrate we are giving away a bevy of prizes supplied by our friends in the photo industry.

To thank you and to help us stay in touch we’re having a big party on the web with chances for you to win cool prizes. The Grand Prize will be an Epson 3880 pro format inkjet printer. In addition, lucky winners selected at random will get some great photo swag donated by the great companies listed to the right.

There are 4 ways to enter. For each method you get one "ticket" in the drawing. Enter now through September 29th. We’ll announce winners in early October.

CLICK HERE TO ENTER

More than 30 prizes worth over $4000!

Red River Paper

GRAND PRIZE – Epson Pro 3880

The grand prize is an Epson 3880 photo inkjet printer! This outstanding 17" wide inkjet printer will meet just about any photo printing need and do it in style.

Other Red River Prizes

Four $100 Gift Certificates for use at the Red River Paper website.

Lensbaby

$150 Gift Certificate

Lensbaby’s Optic Swap System lets you swap your optic to create selective focus, fisheye, soft focus, macro, pinhole, and zone plate photography. www.lensbaby.com

]Joby

Gorilla Pod Magnetic (2 separate winners)

Gorillapod Magnetic
Super-powerful magnetic feet make the Gorillapod even more versatile! Designed for compact digital cameras and mini video recorders.

www.joby.com

ColorRight

ColorRight Classic / Classic Portrait
(5 separate winners)

The right color sets the stage for the most cherished moments in life – ColorRight has created a unique color correction tool that’s ideal for the needs of both amateur and professional photographers.

Extremely thin, compact and “practically unbreakable”. For General Purpose Photography. Landscapes/ Outdoor Photography. Birthday Parties, Get Togethers, Sporting Events, Etc. Very small and compact. Universal Size. One Works With All Lenses. www.colorright.com

Competitive Cameras

Powershot SD940IS

Competitive Cameras is located in the center of the Dallas, Plano, Arlington, Grapevine, & Ft. Worth
Texas Metroplex and is one of America’s largest & best full line camera centers.
We ship nationwide and welcome your business! www.competitivecameras.com

Nik Software

Color Efex Pro 3.0

Color Efex Pro™ 3.0
52 photographic filters with over 250 effects for professional quality images.

www.niksoftware.com

Graphic Authority

Rockstar 3 Template Set

Professional quality Photoshop template set from Graphic Authority. Set includes 3 Disc Collection, 2 – Album Covers (12×24″), 10 – Page Spreads (12×24″), 2 – Album Covers (9×24″), 10 – Page Spreads (9×24″), 2 – 6-panel Accordion Wallets (2.5×3.5″), Much more!

www.graphicauthority.com

NAPP

2 Year NAPP Membership
Digital Magazine Subscription

NAPP is the smartest investment you can make when it comes to Photoshop training. No other resource on the web has the tutorials, news, reviews, discounts and professional community that NAPP does.

www.photoshopuser.com

Kelby Training

3 Kelby Training DVDs

Mastering Adobe® Photoshop®, digital photography, and the entire Adobe Creative Suite has never been easier or more affordable (you get unlimited access to our all-new subscription-based online training catalog, featuring exclusive classes from the industry’s most talented and gifter teachers, for only $199 a year or $24.95 a month).

www.kelbytraining.com

Andrew Darlow

Signed Copy of 301 Inkjet Tips

“301 Inkjet Tips and Techniques: An Essential Printing Resource for Photographers,” covers tips and techniques for prepping, printing and displaying prints made using inkjet printers. The book was recently chosen as the winner in the “Photography: Instructional/How-To” category of The National Best Books 2008 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News.

301 Inkjet Tips and Techniques (via Amazon.com)

A-Better-Bounce-Card

Bounce Cards (3 separate winners)

Want more light – you got it. The new Big-Light Flash Diffuser sports a sleek pro look black matte to it’s backside and attaches to your hot shoe flash unit with an easy to use self contained Velcro belt system. No stickies get put on your expensive flash. No light fires from your flash on everyone behind you!

www.abetterbouncecard.com

Frame Destination

$100 Gift Certificate

With over 60 ready-made picture frame sizes to choose from, Frame Destination offers one of the largest selections of frames available online. They even have a number of ready-made picture frames for panoramic photos as well as rectangular photos.

www.framedestination.com

Digital Image Cafe

1 Year Membership (2 winners)

Digital Image Cafe is an online community dedicated to the promotion of those with an interest in Photography and the Digital Arts through sharing, communication and resources. We strive to provide a friendly environment where our members can grow, learn and have fun.

www.digitalimagecafe.com

O’Reilly Publishing

eBook of Your Choice (5 winners)

O’Reilly spreads the knowledge of innovators through its technology books, online services, magazines, research, and tech conferences.

List of all O’Reilly eBook titles

LowePro

Inverse 100 AW

Ideal for the outdoor photo enthusiast and professional; the Inverse 100 AW beltpack camera case offers a full set of thoughtful features to help you capture the moment with ease; protection and ultra comfort. The quick-access top lets you work out of your pack with minimal effort.

www.lowepro.com

Tim Grey

Learn Lightroom 3 by Video

This innovative product from Adobe Press combines an incredible 10 hours of high-quality HD video training and a full-color printed reference to teach the fundamentals of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.
Experienced instructors Tim Grey and Mikkel Aaland present the video instruction, complete with lesson files, assessment quizzes and review materials.

www.timgrey,com

Beverly Roberts

Portraits of American Bikers: Inside Looking Out
Four Copies

Inside Looking Out: Portraits of American Bikers, the Flash Collection II is the second in an eventual three-book series unveiling the priceless vintage photographs of Jim “Flash” Miteff. The stark black-and-white, large-format photographs dissect an entire era the era: the 60s. They grab you with a grip that was much tighter back then, when it comes to the pure abandon and wildness of the motorcycle culture.

Portraits Of American Bikers: Inside Looking Out

BetterPhoto.com

Delux BetterPholio Website

BetterPhoto makes it quick and easy to showcase your favorite images with your own photography web site. See for yourself… Sign up for a BetterPholio™ today!

$199 Value
Customized Visitor Photo Favorites
Full color and font control and 6 layout choices
Slick slide shows
Much more

Betterphoto Deluxe and Pro Websites

BorrowLenses.com

$150 Gift Certificate

One of the largest photography gear and lens rental stores in the US, and we will do everything we can to make your rental experience go as smoothly as possible. We are photographers ourselves and want nothing more than make sure you have the gear you need, when you need it.

www.borrowlenses.com

There are 4 ways to enter. For each method you get one "ticket" in the drawing. Enter now through September 29th. We’ll announce winners in early October.

CLICK HERE TO ENTER

Contest details here

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Ask Tim Grey Guest Post – Display Brightness

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:00:41 +0000

Today’s Question:

I cannot adjust display luminosity on my 2009 iMac 24″ display. I have the EyeOne Display2 package, but am told I can only set Kelvin and luminosity on an iMac. Calibration says display is at 170 but needs to go to 120. Brightness control slider can’t go darker then 170. Called Apple and they had no solution, and tech support said they are not given native luminosity settings for their displays.

Tim’s Answer:

The issue of high luminance values for LCD displays is actually a very common one. Specifically, most LCD displays are way too bright out of the box, and need to be dimmed in order to ensure accurate results in the context of a color-managed workflow. In some ways this is a good thing, since it means that over time as the LCD illumination starts to fade, there will still be adequate overhead to ensure accurate brightness. Of course, from a color management point of view it can be a problem, particularly if you’re not able to adjust the monitor display downward in luminance to an acceptable target value (around 100 to 120 candelas per square meter).

Unfortunately, many LCD displays lack an adjustment for contrast (or brightness) at all, and some of those that do aren’t able to get the luminance value down far enough. It seems monitor manufacturers are more interested in producing a bright, vibrant display than on ensuring an accurate display of photographic images. If your display doesn’t offer an adequate control to reduce luminance, you may be stuck with a display that is too bright. Being aware of this, you could be careful about the adjustments you apply (making things a little brighter than they should be, for example), but this is far from ideal. Making an image appear “wrong” on the display so it will appear correctly elsewhere is difficult and often problematic.

Fortunately, there are some solutions available. Obviously you could purchase a different display (except for the fact that in the case of the photographer posing this question, the display is an integrated part of the overall computer in the case of the iMac). But there are also some software solutions available. One of the most promising (though a solution I’ve not yet had an opportunity to test myself) is ColorEyes Display Pro from Integrated Color Corporation. This software integrates with existing colorimeters (including the EyeOne Display2 I recommend), and enables you to adjust the brightness of the display to the target luminance value you’re looking for. By all accounts this looks like a great solution, and I’ll be testing it out myself in the near future.

You can download a trial version of the software through the Integrated Color website here:

http://www.integrated-color.com/cedpro/coloreyesdisplay.html

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RRP Daily Dose August 30, 2010

whit — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:21:53 +0000

25 Free Ink Brushes for Photoshop (PSDtuts+)

Lightroom Presets – The Trick to Getting Good Prints (APLKT)

Removing Dust and Scratches in Photoshop and Lightroom (Graphics.com)

Advanced Layer Blending in Photoshop (Layers Mag)

The Gel or Not to Gel, That is the Question (Digital ProTalk)

Expanding Dynamic Range in Photoshop (Graphics.com)

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RRP Daily Dose August 26, 2010

whit — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:11:18 +0000

Blending and Adjusting Light in Photoshop (Good-Tutorials)

Top 5 Reasons Why an iPad Rocks for Travel (The Digital Story)

Use Photoshop Actions to Make a Flipbook (Peachpit)

Umbellas Versus Soft Boxes (Shutterbug)

Publish Your Photos Directly to Facebook from Lightroom 3.2 (Terry White)

The $20 Lighting Kit (PopPhoto)

What’s It Like to Go Freelance? Answers from 27 Photographers (BSR)

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6 Days Until Red River Paper Turns 13!

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:30:40 +0000

6 days left until the big Red River Paper 13th anniversary bash begins. Get ready to enter for a chance to win some awesome prizes.

Want a hint….think Epson and 17″.

More to come soon!

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Facebook Fans Favorite Photo Websites

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:53:40 +0000

Red River loves our Facebook fans! Thanks to all that contributed to this great list of photography related websites. Here they are in no particular order:

http://www.flickr.com

http://www.viiphoto.com

http://www.photo.net

http://www.mpix.com

http://www.kelbytraining.com/

http://www.tmelive.com

http://www.shutterbugs.biz/

http://www.luminous-landscape.com

http://www.sxc.hu/

http://offcameraflash.com

http://www.digitalimagecafe.com

http://www.joemcnally.com